The Missouri Supreme Court has unanimously blocked the state’s newly enacted congressional map from taking effect in the November 2026 general election, holding that a referendum petition challenging the measure was both valid and timely. The practical result is significant: unless Missouri voters approve the new map, the state will continue using the prior post-2020 census congressional boundaries.

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Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.I have already covered the conference and several of the week’s biggest stories – including LexisNexis’s Legal …
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The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis and revive a federal mail-ballot restriction that a lower federal court had blocked ahead of the November midterm elections. The application places the dispute on the Court’s fast-track emergency docket, where timing often matters as much as the merits—especially in election cases unfolding close…
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The federal government’s effort to strip the American Bar Association of its law-school accreditation role is emerging as one of the most consequential legal-industry regulatory fights of the year. While this is not a courtroom merits ruling, the stakes are unusually high: ABA recognition has long served as the backbone for law-school legitimacy, student loan access, and bar eligibility in…
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US multinational law firm Wilson Sonsini at ILTACON this year took to the stage with Salesforce to detail the work the pair are doing together to prepare for the agentic […]
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Key points

  • ABA’s Mental Wellbeing in the Legal Profession study found women lawyers reported higher levels of stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms and lower overall well-being than men lawyers
  • Women also reported high stressors like sleep disturbances, family member issues, and loneliness
  • The report found that the way women experience stress varies across race, ethnicity, disability, sexual

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Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.I have already covered the conference and several of the week’s biggest stories – including LexisNexis’s Legal …
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California is on the verge of becoming one of the first states to directly regulate how generative AI may be used by attorneys and arbitrators in legal practice. A bill that cleared the state legislature now awaits action by Gov. Gavin Newsom, putting the legal industry on notice that AI governance is moving beyond ethics opinions and court standing orders…
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In this Aderant product demonstration, Neil Cameron, lead analyst at Legal IT Insider, is joined by Austin Brick, senior business development specialist at Aderant, who walks us through the first […]
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Google LLC has filed a new inter partes review, IPR2026-00440, at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on August 27, 2026, opening another front in what may become a closely watched patent dispute. At this stage, the docket identifies Google as the petitioner, but practitioners should note that early PTAB filings sometimes provide only limited public-facing party details until…
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